LocoRoco Midnight Carnival Launches Today!

Today is a grand day in Loco history as LocoRoco Midnight Carnival hits the PSN! As I’ve stated in my last few blogposts, Midnight Carnival is full of great new features to satisfy your “tilt and roll” needs! But one of the biggest things this game brings is….competition. Now I’m not just talking about the multiplayer feature we went over on Monday where I took Kumi out. :) I’m talking about competition on a global scale! With Midnight Carnival, you can finally test your skills against the best in the world via the new online Global Leaderboard.

For those of you who can’t find a LocoRoco opponents locally, check out the Global Leaderboard (accessible via Infrastructure mode) to compete with the top players from around the globe. The top five players will be given the option to upload their replay save for bragging rights. Those who don’t rank in the top 5 can download those replays for possible tips on improving their game. Talk about showing your LocoRoco supremacy!

For those of you who are sitting the fence, not to worry. We are releasing a Demo today, and a new PSP Wallpaper next week to further wet your appetite! If you don’t pick up LocoRoco Midnight Carnival after that, well I just don’t know what else I can do….

Oh wait! How about these?

Now you can celebrate LocoRoco Midnight Carnival Day AND Halloween together!

I just realized you totally responded to all but ONE comment (by comment 12) That is truly amazing.

Also, LocoRoco is amazing. I haven’t been keeping up with Midnight Carnival but I’ll have to catch up soon. Right now I’m low on funds(thanks to all those buy 2 get 1 free sales) but this is a definite MUST BUY!

Also, thank you so much for making this release digital. I was totally bummed when I had to purchase a UMD for LR2

Also, I’d like to point out @5, this is definitely not an “overpriced” game.

I’ll admit there are many games that shouldn’t be as expensive as they are on PSN, but $15 for a game is VERY reasonable. Some of the $30-40 games are ridiculous, and even above $20 I become hesitant, but $14.99? That’s the sweet spot right there.

I do find disappointment when games are more expensive on PSN than at retail, but I personally am fine paying the same price for PSN as for UMD. As long as it’s not MORE, I’m fine with it.

My wife and I LOVE these games!
I am excited for the accessories.
I can’t believe the game is only $14.99.
And FREE masks so I can not only PLAY LocoRoco I can BE a LocoRoco for Halloween too!
Plus the replies from Mr. Inaba really is the icing on the cake, so to speak.
We just need some LocoRoco candies!
SCEA Santa Monica is top notch!

I know you dont decide the price, Its just very dissapointing when very few publishers/developers get it.

Sidhe got it right with charging $8 for Shatter and pricing it comparable(or even cheaper in the UK) elsewhere in the world instead of taking advantage of historically higher game prices in certain regions like so many do.

Awesome! I just got a PSP 3000 and bought Loco Roco 2 and Patapon 2 on PSN (Both are AMAZING o say the least!) One question though, how large is the download? Should I pick up a memory stick on my way home?

First of all, a price-point is merely an initial barrier during the purchasing thought-process. For example, I would pay $60 for a Monster Hunter game on the PSP. Why? Because I get that much enjoyment out of those games.

Luckily, for those that do not agree with the current price-point, you have a demo to play and see for yourself if LocoRoco Midnight Carnival is worth $14.99 for you.

For a LocoRoco fan such as myself, $14.99 is definitely worth it for a worthy title that comes with more LocoRoco bouncing goodness and NEW features.

I don’t get how people can go off on how much a developer / publisher should charge for a game. You have no idea how many hours it took to make a game a reality. You don’t know the process it took for this game to come from concept to release. The price point was most likely deliberating on for quite some time to make it the most fair for both the consumer and the developer. To those that are commenting about the price: how would you like someone to comment about whatever product / service you may be involved in for your job, saying how it’s overpriced and ridiculous?

Looks awesome. Makes me wish I still had a PSP. It’d sure be great if you guys would make a traditional LocoRoco game for the PS3. I’d buy it in an instant. Cocoreccho (or however you spell it) was not my cup of tea.

I can’t wait for this demo because by looking at the gameplay, it looks like this is going to be one of the most enjoyable games on the PSP and maybe one of the high-rated games like the highly-anticipated Patapon 2 that released on May.

For a game to cost only $14.99 is just awesome especially since it will provide you with countless hours of entertainment. How can you go wrong with that ? It’s amazing that games are becoming this cheap. You almost start to feel bad knowing that developers spend so much time creating a game and it sells for nearly the same price as an item you would find in a supermarket.

C’mon people, let’s stop with all the price comments already. If you can’t afford the game then that’s one thing but don’t bad mouth the developers for your own financial status. All PSN games are extremely reasonable in price.

I am very impressed with your replies. Nice. Your gonna have the record on the blog for most replies.
I know I made some Homemade LocoRocos but any thing official planned for NA?
BTW, you should tell the Patapon department that refridgerator magnets would be awesome! Perfect for Patapons.
Off topic: What are you going as for Halloween?

wow this game looks pretty sweet, and 14.99 sounds like a perfect price. Will definitely get the demo to try this out, kudos to you Inaba for replying to everybody basically, i think u just won yourself a fan and customer lol.

hey I am really pumped for Locoroco and whatever other games are coming out, but I have a question: When does the update occur exactly? Cuz i live in Toledo, OH and it is 8:15 pm here and still no PS Store update! Haha It doesn’t bother me, but I figured since you do such an amazing job of answering back that it wouldn’t hurt to ask. Thanks!